Bayesian Methods Research Group

News

Applications to Deep|Bayes 2019 are now open

16Feb2019

One again, we're organizing an international summer school on Bayesian Deep Learning to be held in Moscow, August 20–25. Head over to deepbayes.ru to view last year's videos, practical assignments and apply to this year's run.

NIPS 2018: Papers accepted, reviewers appreciated

We're happy to inform that our group got two papers accepted to NIPS 2018: "Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity, and Fast Ensembling of DNNs" (spotlight talk) by Timur Garipov*, Dmitrii Podoprikhin*, Dmitry Vetrov in collaboration with Pavel Izmailov* (our alumni) and Andrew Gordon Wilson from Cornell University (* denotes equal contribution) and "Quantifying Learning Guarantees for Convex but Inconsistent Surrogates" by Kirill Struminsky and Anton Osokin (equal contribution) in collaboration with Simon Lacoste-Julien from University of Montreal.

Also, our reviewers' contribution has been recognized: Anton Osokin made it into top-200 reviewers, and Dmitry Vetrov got in top 30%.

First international run of Deep|Bayes, a summer school on Bayesian Deep Learning

01Sep2018

Over the course of last week over a hundred students from all over the world gathered in Moscow to familiarize themselves with modern research on Bayesian Deep Learning. The school presented an intense in-depth immersion through both lectures and practical assignments. The lecturers included not only the members of our group, but some prominent invited speakers as well: Max Welling from University of Amsterdam, Maurizio Filippone from EURECOM, Alessandro Achille from University of California, Los Angeles, Sergey Bartunov and Michael Figurnov from DeepMind.

A short paper is accepted to EMNLP 2018

10Aug2018

A short paper "Bayesian Compression for Natural Language Processing" by Nadezhda Chirkova, Ekaterina Lobacheva and Dmitry Vetrov was accepted to EMNLP 2018, and will be presented in Brussels during the main conference.

Professor Vetrov gave a talk at Google DeepMind

20Jul2018

Dmitry Vetrov was invited to give a talk at Google DeepMind. He presented recent results on Bayesian Deep Learning our group has discovered.

BayesGroup has joined forces with Samsung AI Center

29May2018

Samsung has officially opened its new Samsung AI Center in Moscow, where among others Dmitry Vetrov and our group will be involved in research on Bayesian Methods and Deep Learning.

A paper is accepted to ACL 2018

30Apr2018

A paper "Conditional Generators of Words Definitions" by Artyom Gadetsky, Ilya Yakubovskiy and Dmitry Vetrov was accepted to ACL 2018, and will be presented in Melbourne later this year.